Ligretto

Card game Ligretto is a card game for two to twelve players. The game in its current form was designed by Michael Michaels and published in 1988 by the German company Rosengarten Spiele. Since 2000 the game has been published by Schmidt-Spiele of Berlin, Germany. A blue version of the game has been published by Playroom Entertainment in North America and other English-speaking countries since 2009. The objective of the game is to get rid of your cards faster than the other players by discarding them in the middle of the table. The game is based on and is similar to Dutch Blitz. Both card games use specially printed cards, but feature gameplay almost identical to Nerts, which is played with standard playing cards, and is in turn based on Canfield, a variant of the classic Klondike Solitaire. History Ligretto was first released in 1988 by the German company Rosengarten Spiele. It may have been inspired by Rasender Teufel, invented in 1927 in Leipzig, which had an almost identical set of rules and play style. It is also inspired by Dutch Blitz, which was invented to teach children about colors and numbers. Good Time Holding bought the rights for the game in 1999, and since 2000 it has